When first encountered by Europeans, the Australian Aboriginals did not have written languages (individual words were collected from first contact, but languages as systems were not written down until well into the 20th century).
They were replaced with person first language -- "individual with an intellectual disability" and "intellectual disability".
Yet the promise both offered was wrapped up in the contradictory language of individual empowerment and so-called personalisation.
The two revolutions talked the language of individual freedom, but they perversely ended up creating greater centralization.
But the open-ended character of their language on individual rights is a crucial clue to a more relevant version of their original intentions.
Many simply seek an answer rather than a published correction; many are about the use, or misuse, of language and individual words.
"And, if so, did they participate in their hosts' language?" "Which individual has won the most Football League Trophy winner's medals?" tweets Joe Edward.
"The language of individual privacy rights," he continues, "directs our attention away from a more general skepticism of an unbridled police that ought to animate our interpretation of the Fourth Amendment".
"Before a symbolic system such as language, an individual will not know that something in front of them is large or small, hot or cold, red or green" — or, Derbyshire argues, painful or pleasant.
